Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-01-16
Sunday, January rs, 1887.
THE PACIFIC POSTAL TELEGRAPH co

THE PACIFIC POSTAL TELEGRAPH CO,
To fight fire with fire is perhaps
the best way to get rid of the terrafic-
lent element when il gets unmanage-
able and to fight telegraph monopolies
with rival telegraph companies seems
the best plan that man can use to bring
such monopolies to their senses.
Along the Pacific coast from New
Westminster to San Francisco, there
has been quietly pushing ahead dur
ing the past one hundred days one Of
the greatest enterprises undertaken In
the great west since ths Pacific rail-
roads, and one that Is to be received
with open arms by the masses OF the
people when IL is completed, for il will
free them from the clutches of the
greatest and most heartless monopoly
that ever cursed the world. This is
the Pacific Postal Telegraph company.
which early in the present year will
give San Francisco and Portland, and
all points, In fact, between the former
city and New Westminster, b. c., a
competing line to all points east, as
well as cable communication with the
Old World.
This line with it's connections will
enter the field fully equipped as q ri.
val TO the Western Union Gn equal
ground. The Western Union com.
pany, partly by its own and partly by
lines leased from the Union and Gen.
trail Pacific railroads, has hiti erto con-
trolled and monopolized the telegraph
service between the Atlantic aud Pa
cific states. This new line will give
independent telegraphic communica-
ton between all parts Of the Pacific
coast and all parts of the Atlantic
states and by connection with the
Commercial tMackay.B B ennett) cables
to ell parts Of the world.
The different companies in connect
ion with the Postal Company's system
are as follows: The Commercial Cable
Company, the United Line Telegraph
Company. formerly the Bankers and
Merchants Company; the Commercial
Union Telegraph Company, the Nor
thern Mutual Telegraph Company, the
Michigan Postal Telegraph Company.
the Postal Company, Nos. l. 2, and 3
Of Pennsylvania; the North American
Telegraph Company; the Beard Of
Trade Telegraph Company. the Pa,i-
fic Mutual Telegraph Company, the
Pacific Telegraph Company, the Balti-
more Il Ohio Telegraph Company
and the Canadian Pacific e'egraph
system.
The president of the Postal Tele-
graph Company. in an interview with
the editor Of the Portland (Ore. News
says that the work will be completed
10 March OF this year ready for busi-
ness. The company's land line system
consists OF sixty thousand miles Of
wire. .ow ned, controlled and operated by
them, touching nearly all the import
ant business centers Of the United
States. In addition thereto they ex-
chagLe business with the Baltimore
q Ohio telegraph, which company
has over forty thousand miles Of wire.
The president OF the Pacific Postal
Company further says:
Che Baltimore & Obi, Company
and our company are on the most
friendly terms. thereby giving our
company the facilities Of reaching
points not yet covered by the Postal
Compsny's system. As, for instance,
should a message be handed in at any
of our offices on the Pacific coast, des-
tined TO a point on the Baltimore a.
Ohio where the Postal Company may
not have yet established an Office, II Is
disposed rs follows: IL IL transmitted
over the wires Of the Pacific Postal
lines TO New Westminster, thence
eastward via the Canadian Pacific sys-
tenn aud turned over TO the Baltimore
d Ohio Company at Buffalo TO Its
destination for delivery. All other
business 10 handled direct by the Pos
tai Company east or west via the Can.
adian Pacific systems, which have
themselves nearly fifty thousand miles
OF wire, most Of which Ia now In oper-
alton; 80 take II all In all II makes
quite q respectable competing tele-
graph company OF about one hundred
and fifty thousand miles Of land line
wires, and not under the control of the
Western Union.
With this rival In the field, perhaps
telegraphlng will not be So much Of a
monopoly In the near future as IL has
been.-WasbiDgton Gazette.